New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-06


solons In preparing bills and reports always anxious
know II any steps have heretofore been taken in the
same direction. They always 90 to smith 10 md oat,
and they 80 away without obtaining the desired
There is tradition among the older newspaper men
here that Smith suddenly taken sick some ten ye1Is
and that the trouble soon assumed the shape OF
fever and attacked his head The sollcous senators in
sisted on daily reports OF MS condition from the gulcs
little country house few miles from Washington. For
days. the disease gained on him, 1t seemed
dubious for smith and his cycopedc brain. and CORE,
spon insy gloomy Tor the pubic men Wh9 &c, dependGt
broke at last, ami he began slowly TO mend II wasa
6ay morning IN May when zen Aah returned to s S
lescent man Senator Window
"Amzi.' he said, is there any document which viii
Eys G any Information as 10 the NenaocnO n'
AMI sqninted at the ceiling few seconds longer than
usual. pulled meditstiyely the front lock of his hair.
while his ,sistans gathered about him sympathetic
suspense and then suddenly "a if catching The spirit Of
revival borne IN through the windows Oh the blossom
laden air. broke ont with:
session. And think you will find it in Vol OF House
Miscellaneous Documents No 10" ,,-
correctness Of Amzis statement Though nearly ten
Smith still remembered its number and what i.
tanned.
Pictures Of the President in various attitudes and
styles of porraiure abound Two local photographers
have made a small each by the sale Of the
mans portrait. Keppler given an opportunity not
long ago TO draw Mr.. Cleveland from life and he i'm
proved itgreatly, as everybody knows, to the adSan
taSc Of his pocket Still the President remains dissats
tied There is something wanting in all these pictures.
he thinks which artist has yet succeeded In mailing
down His soul has been yearning for this undonable
something his energies have been Slapped in attempts to
obtain IT, and it q constant source of regret and
worry him during his late trip that the bcs upon his
face which the fakrs sold the counterfeit present
ments OF the President the United states in all the
towns through which he passed did 50 much to preu
dice people against him But all this is to be remeded
now.
One day last week the President stole hour from his
abors the White House. and leaving Colonel
Lamont chin the seedy office seekers or percnance
perfect of those gigantic schemes Of reform with
which the country is frequently startled now adays,
hicd him down the little swiss chalet front of tho
Treasury Building Here the Government photographer
spends the day completing the official collection OF cello
braed criminals and their counterfeit work, in which
Chief Brooks Of the Secret Service takes much PRIDE
The visit of course. was not entirely unexpected; SIN,
he stood IN the august presence OF the CHIEF Magls-
tra;o Of Nation OF sixty million fTecbon etc. etc the
young artist was not quite capable of mastering his
emotion. and a beautiful dry plate slipped from his
hands and went crashing to the floor. Bur the President
smiled cncouraensy upon the poor young man. and Like
any other mortal said:
want ny picture taken
"Yc~. sir replied the artist.
I; done Well, continued the Chief Magistrate
OF a Nation OF etc. etc. almost with Sigh
"Thcn you can 20 TO work.
II The labor of a few minutes only to throw the
President into statesmanlike atltule-not that
selected hy kcppcr which has defiant " hat are'you'
going about-it air and in few horii i'm
prcsslons that have seen to suggest the irreyerent
question: Kernel do you take sugar III your'n but
a modest yet delicatey sefassertye attitude which the
young artist hopes Will bring out fully the Presidents
manly beauty and satisfy HI. Utmost craving am not
informed whether Mr. Cleveland was compelled to 20
through the ordeal OF the photographers sereoypcd en-
treaties; cit s,ill now one moment ony-rase your
chin lust lcctle blt-ook this way-and now put
pleasant expression upon yOnr face there that's II ;
say | do not know whether he had 10 go through all
this but r 1t comfort TO anybody TO know II, can
announce, OF the negatives that ia one OF
them NJ least the Presidential counenance bears 4
seraphic smile, happy, bland, 50 conscious Of its
rectitude, that II may even lay Its owner open 10
the suspicion of being engaged. days in the week,
In "A stcaIthy contemplation OF the beaifc VISION in
stead chucking with Brother Re former German over
results Of Baltimore elections. Can II be that IL
Is this which the President has been looking tor IN his
pictures long, and for so long in vain